"Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the……" — M. John Harrison
"Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation."
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14 Quotes by M. John Harrison
M. John Harrison has 14 quotes on this site.
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After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you…
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Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then…
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Perception of a state is not the state.
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Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised…
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At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap,…
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I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for…
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SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy…
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Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
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Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
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Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have…
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Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go…
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What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why…
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In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages…
— George Orwell
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To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the…
— Maxim Gorky
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
— Walter Mosley
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The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social…
— Franz Oppenheimer
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We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually…
— Duane Elgin
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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are…
— Melinda Gates
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My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's…
— Mary-Louise Parker
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When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.
— Gail Simmons
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When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American…
— Herbert Croly
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Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of…
— Carl Rogers
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The average woman today is almost completely out of touch with her own power.
— Frederick Lenz
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The living together is very important in a way. It's important for writing. It wouldn't be important if we were…
— Steve Winwood
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